Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - A playground structure in Alberta, Canada is being dismantled this week so it can be shipped to an impoverished area in Mexico.
The equipment, located at Monsignor Neville Anderson School in northwest Calgary, is scheduled to be sent to a school in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in October.
Christena Callaghan organized the donation as part of her non-profit group Angels for Mexico, a charitable organization that focuses on improving the quality of life for impecunious people in Mexico.
"This equipment will be like Disneyland down there to those children; there is nothing like this available to them,” Callaghan said. "It'll just mean the world to them."
The northwest Calgary school is scheduled to get a new play structure after the old one is removed. Jordan Christopher Shaw, a Grade 6 student at Monsignor Neville Anderson School, said he’s happy the playground is going to those who need it.
"I have a lot of good memories of the good times I've had at this park," Jordan said. "We're very lucky to be able to have parks like this, so we're giving that luck to other people who don't have stuff like this."
This move will make it the third time the organization has sent a playground to Mexico. The relocation of the playground is being funded by donations. The total cost of the project is about $7,000.